About Louise's work
Artist with a love of words, forever chasing shadows.
Through a deeply empathetic approach, I explore lived or imagined perspectives - stepping into other’s stories and experiences to find a place of shared feeling. Drawing on the intimacy of handwriting to celebrate emotional truth - evoking inky love letters, diary entries and secret notes.
Primarily working in silk organza, embracing its contradictory nature, delicate yet strong, and echoing my words as shadows - fleeting and forever just out of reach.
"I’m fascinated by inner worlds - putting myself in someone else’s shoes to imagine how they felt, resonating with the emotional truth at the heart of their experience and creating from that shared feeling."
LOUISE BROOKE
About Louise
Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, but originally from Glasgow, I studied Fashion Design at the University of Leeds, graduating in 2015.
In 2025, I returned to creative practice following a deeply personal career change journey, after my partner’s diagnosis with Becker Muscular Dystrophy. The first piece I created featured the Tom Waits’ lyric ‘You Can Never Hold Back Spring’ - a celebration of hope and inevitable renewal.
I have created textile pieces for The Grand Island Hotel, The Sunday Letter Project, Matt Eich at Mule Resophonic Guitars and the Poetry Pharmacy in York.
Five Tulips in Pripyat, 1986 was selected for the Baltic Open Submission 2026 and I was one of the finalists in the Young Masters x Wimbledon Museum exhibition Her Court: The Role Wimbledon Played in the Suffragette Movement. Following the exhibition, my work I Have Never Been Anything Else remains on display at Wimbledon Museum.
I'm a member of NEEDLE North East Textile Artists and was on the Collective Studio 25-26 at The NewBridge Project.
"I've always been drawn to textiles because we have this uniquely intimate, but also very everyday, relationship with fabric. We have a familiarity and sense of how a material will feel on our skin."